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>> reporter: besides, he said, tom already admitted he'd been around there days earlier. maybe that's what calamity jane hit on. so bob peterson got calamity jane's handler up on the witness stand at a hearing here at the courthouse. and what do you know, neither dog nor handler were properly certified. >> when i asked him for all the paperwork, he told me about how he'd put the paperwork about the dog and himself on top of his suburban and it had, unfortunately, all blown away. so he couldn't provide it. >> reporter: not quite the dog ate my homework, but close. so what did the judge do? he t...

The way things happen, is it? coming up -- >> it was just devastating. >> another family distraught. >> so angry. you want to do anything, you can to help him. >> it was just devastating. we've never been through anything like that in our family. >> there simply wasn't the money to hire a high-priced attorney. >> when i met him, i knew that he couldn't have done it. >> oh, come on. what a typical thing for a defense attorney to say. >> i've represented hundreds and hundreds of defendants. and you get a sense of people. and i got a sense of tom. so then as the evidence started rolling in, i b...

Coming up -- >> and he says, okay, i'm going to tell you something i didn't tell you before. >> reporter: tom changes his stories and investigators pounce. >> another family distraught. >> you feel angry. you want to do anything you can to help them. >> and help would arrive for tom in a most unusual way. when "dateline" continues. s. are infused with natural essential oils to create authentic seasonal scents that fill your home with holiday spirit all season long. connect to nature this season.

If somebody's there. >> reporter: according to ann, that was about 10:40 p.m. >> i think bryan then heard him, went to the back door. and i think at that point when there's thomas jaraczeski sitting on that back porch, has a gun, i think immediately bryan knew what was going on and the fight was on. and i think it was a struggle. i think he shot him twice in the arm. i think he then -- bryan struggled back to try to get to the phone and thomas shot him in the chest. left the weapon. got on that atv. >> reporter: and took off? >> took off. and then he had hurt his back, so the next day he had t...

Immediately that he would be high on the list of suspects, as, of course, he was. so he wasn't surprised when agent ken thompson and the local undersheriff showed up at the family farmhouse. >> i was nervous. i mean, both guys had guns on their hips and came into my house, and you know, i proceeded to tell them all these things that i was doing as far as the phone calls and the stalking. and when i told them all about that, then they totally changed their tune and started accusing me of killing bryan. i was scared to death. i was worried that they were going to charge me that night. >> reporte...